First E145 for Australia

[Steve Jones]

Pictured here in SkyAirWorld colours (no VH- rego yet though). Anyone know what is intended for the aircraft? Charters? RPT? wet/damp lease?

http://skyliner-aviation.de/viewphot...av2&picid=4737

[Kent Broadhead]

Not wanting to hijack the thread - I'm interested in what work it will be ised for too.

Interesting that Australia basically skipped this market segment, apart from Kendall's CRJ 200s before Ansett's demise. Australia largely stayed with turboprops when the rest of the world was switching to RJs....

Kent

[Bruce Bramwell]

and now the world is going back to Turboprops - the Jet killers

I am too curious to think, what the 145 is used for

[Adam P.]

and now the world is going back to Turboprops

...except there are no 'new' turboprops being made anymore smaller than Q400 size. When the DHC-8 and Saabs that are currently kicking around get REALLY old and tired, what then? Jets just don't have the economics to compete over shorter stage lengths.

[Nigel C]

Then world demand will dictate that they need to fill that niche market. I'm sure the smart manufacturers would be looking at this already.

[damian f]

This thread reminded me that National Jet at least registered 2 ERJ145s back in the 90's ICA and ICD. Did they ever fly for National Jet? Any more info??

Damian

[Bruce Bramwell]

Originally Posted by Adam P.

...except there are no 'new' turboprops being made anymore smaller than Q400 size. When the DHC-8 and Saabs that are currently kicking around get REALLY old and tired, what then? Jets just don't have the economics to compete over shorter stage lengths.

You still can still order the Q200 / Q300 for the time being and secondly the ATR42-500 is a 44seater.........

[D Chan]

Originally Posted by Bruce Bramwell

You still can still order the Q200 / Q300 for the time being

but not for much longer,

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...0-in-2009.html

[Nathan Long]

Maybe EMBRAER can shorten the EMB-145 to 30 seats, remove the jet engines from the rear and put turboprops on the wings....

[Andrew McLaughlin]

Originally Posted by Nathan Long

Maybe EMBRAER can shorten the EMB-145 to 30 seats, remove the jet engines from the rear and put turboprops on the wings....

Ironically, that's how they got the EMB-134/145 in the first place - by lengthening the EMB-120 and putting jets and a swept wing on it!